Win7 and SATA drives

[Ron O'Brien]

When installing Win7 do you still have to F6 and load SATA drivers or is all
that sorted now?

 

[Agent_C]

When installing Win7 do you still have to F6 and load SATA drivers or is all
that sorted now?

No. SATS support has been native to Windows since Vista.

A_C

 

[PvdG42]

When installing Win7 do you still have to F6 and load SATA drivers or is
all that sorted now?

Your SATA drive(s) should be automatically recognized and handled. They have
for me on 4 PC's, hard drives and optical drives.

 

[Ato_Zee]

Your SATA drive(s) should be automatically recognized and handled. They
have
for me on 4 PC's, hard drives and optical drives.

Installed yes, but they do not automatically appear with plug and
pray hot connect. With XP they do. The drives appear OK if
plugged in at boot, otherwise you have to run the utility to make
them appear, which is a right pain in the butt.

 

[Augustus]

Installed yes, but they do not automatically appear with plug and
pray hot connect. With XP they do. The drives appear OK if
plugged in at boot, otherwise you have to run the utility to make
them appear, which is a right pain in the butt.

Not exactly. The WDM has been completely redesigned in Server 2008, Windows
7 and Vista, where it first appeared. Hot connect is integrated into the
kernel and is transparent.
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/multilevel-rebal.mspx